Trump Takes the Dumbest Tariff Plunge  —  He says the 25% levies on Mexico and Canada will begin Tuesday.  Stocks fall.  —  President Trump likes to cite the stock market when it's rising as a sign of his policy success, so what does he think about Monday's plunge?

No more town halls, NRCC chief tells House Republicans  —  The chair of the House GOP's campaign arm told Republican lawmakers Tuesday to stop holding in-person town halls amid a wave of angry backlash over the cuts undertaken by President Donald Trump's administration.

People Are Paying Millions to Dine With Donald Trump at Mar-a-Lago  —  Business leaders are paying as much as $5,000,000 to meet one-on-one with the president at his Florida compound, sources tell WIRED, while others are paying $1,000,000 apiece to dine with him in a group setting.

Trump Abruptly Walks Back His Directive To Fire Thousands Of Federal Employees  —  His administration is suddenly reversing course after a federal judge ruled that the mass firings of probationary workers were probably illegal.  —  WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump on Tuesday abruptly walked …

Non-core property list  —  We are identifying buildings and facilities that are not core to government operations, or non-core properties for disposal.  Selling ensures that taxpayer dollars are no longer spent on vacant or underutilized federal spaces.  Disposing of these assets helps …

MAGA Newspaper Owner's AI Bot Defends KKK  —  An AI-generated summary tried to offer “different views” on the hate group.

Some DOGE Staffers Are Drawing Six-Figure Government Salaries  —  Engineers and executives at the so-called Department of Government Efficiency are drawing healthy taxpayer-funded salaries—sometimes from the very agencies they are cutting.  —  Some staffers at Elon Musk's so-called Department …

Ethical Concerns Surround Sen. Joni Ernst's Relationships With Top Military Officials Who Lobbied Her Committee  —  Earlier this year, the Air Force revealed that the general who oversaw its lobbying before Congress had inappropriate romantic relationships with five women, including three who worked on Capitol Hill.

Vance Ignites Outrage in Britain With ‘Random Country’ Comment  —  The vice president denied that he was talking about Britain and France when he downplayed “20,000 troops from some random country” protecting Ukraine.  No other countries have pledged troops.

Trump adviser Alina Habba says veterans fired by DOGE are perhaps ‘not fit to have a job at this moment’  —  Emily Erroa, an Army veteran who was fired from the Department of Energy last month, called Habba's comments “ridiculous” and “insulting.”  —  WASHINGTON — White House adviser Alina Habba …

EXCLUSIVE: A Hitler-quoting ‘Aryan’ has the attention of JD Vance and Elon Musk—who is @captivedreamer7?  —  The account, followed by JD Vance, previously boasted of being a white supremacist.  —  Days after the 2024 election, Vice President JD Vance followed @capitivedreamer7 …

Vengeance Is His  —  With Trump back in the White House, each new week produces an onslaught of radical policy initiatives.  —  In an essay posted on Substack, Stephen I. Vladeck, a law professor at Georgetown, described a sequence — running from Feb. 21 to Feb. 27 …

The L.A. Times adds AI-generated counterpoints to its opinion pieces and guess what, there are problems  —  The hope: The L.A. Times will appear more “objective” if it presents both sides of an issue, even if one side's written by a human and the other side is generated by AI.  The reality: Kind of a mess.

Trump admin moves to drop fight over emergency abortions, reversing Biden admin stance  —  An Idaho hospital is stepping in to argue that the state's near-total abortion ban violates patients' rights.  —  The Trump administration is dropping a yearslong legal battle with Idaho over the right …

AG Bondi faces heat from White House, Trump allies over Epstein files release  —  The release, which was trumpeted by the AG, revealed almost no new information.  —  Attorney General Pam Bondi speaks at the Conservative Political Action Conference 2025 at National Harbor, Maryland, Feb. 20, 2025.

Elon Musk urges Trump to ‘think about’ pardoning George Floyd's murderer  —  Elon Musk, the billionaire face of DOGE, urged officials like President Donald Trump to “think about” pardoning the former police officer who shocked the world by murdering George Floyd on camera.

Why Techdirt Is Now A Democracy Blog (Whether We Like It Or Not)  —  While political reporters are still doing their view-from-nowhere “Democrats say this, Republicans say that” dance, tech and legal journalists have been watching an unfortunately recognizable plan unfold — a playbook we're all too familiar with.

I Followed Three Women Who Wanted to Divorce Their Trump-Supporting Husbands.  I Can't Believe Where They Ended Up.  —  This fall, I followed three women who had been thinking about divorce.  What happened when Donald Trump won again?  —  Marriage is hardly a new invention.

Economic growth is slowing — so Trump wants to redefine “economic growth”  —  The government produces many of America's most important economic indicators.  And that data influences the media's coverage of the economy, which likely colors voters' views of the president.

US supreme court weakens rules on discharge of raw sewage into water supplies  —  Ruling by the court, which has a Republican super majority, undermines the 1972 Clean Water Act  —  The US supreme court has weakened rules on the discharge of raw sewage into water supplies in a 5-4 ruling that undermines the 1972 Clean Water Act.

There Is No Musk Exception in the Constitution  —  It's difficult to convey the full magnitude of the legal chaos emanating from the Trump administration.  It goes well beyond the violation of individual laws — much of the past month has featured what feels like an assault on the very idea of law as a binding constraint.

Zelensky Offers Terms to Stop Fighting, Assuring U.S. That Ukraine Wants Peace  —  “We are working on all possible scenarios to protect Ukraine,” said President Volodymyr Zelensky, whose country was looking to European allies for support.  —  President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine …

Secretary McMahon: Our Department's Final Mission  —  When I took the oath of office as Secretary of Education, I accepted responsibility for overseeing the U.S. Department of Education and those who work here.  But more importantly, I took responsibility for supporting over 100 million American children …